At the Lake:
Baseboard heater in building to be turned on. Wall-mounted thermostat should be adjusted to the pencil mark on the thermostat.
Lake pump intake lines heat traces to be turned on. This involves simply making sure that the power cords are plugged into the appropriate outlet. These are Paladin heat traces. When lake pumps are off, each control should show a small, orange neon lamp. Looking carefully at the control, "test" and "reset" buttons are visible, similar to a GFI outlet. Pressing "test" will cause the lamp to go out, pressing "reset" will cause the lamp to light again and you may also detect a faint "click" as the circuitry turns back on.
Make sure the cliff water line heat trace is turned on. The control for this is on the west wall near the light switch. The control dial should be turned up to the pencil mark on the control housing.
NOTE: The simplest way to do all of this is to turn on the 3 different breakers in the electrical panel. Ensure everything is connected and plugged in and operating. In the spring, the 3 breakers can be turned off to disable all heating.
At the Treatment Building:
Turn on the building's baseboard heater. It may be turned off at the circuit breaker box (the preferred method) or the temperature dial may be turned down. It would be useful to check this setting in a day or two to make sure it's not "too" warm or too cold. A temperature of around +10C in the building would be ideal.
At the Reservoir Booster Station:
Turn on the building's baseboard heater. This will probably be turned off at the breaker box or at the wall-mounted thermostat on the west wall near the light switch. A building temperature of around +5C fine. Often, the window is left open a very small amount to allow excess humidity to escape.
Note that when it is very cold, frost will build up in the hole the reservoir level stick goes through. This could make you believe the reservoir level is higher or lower than reality. A simple fix is to climb up on the reservoir, taking a thermos of boiled water. Pour the hot water down the stick hole to melt any frost. Also, shovel off enough snow so that the stick can be seen clearly.
Elsewhere on the System:
Make sure all standpipes are turned off and drained, all fire hoses taken inside for the winter and that all meter vaults are covered over. Note that there are some standpipes that do not drain on their own after use. For these, take a section of plastic hose and siphon the water from those pipes before winter.
From time to time, it is probably necessary to open up meter vaults and inspect them, make sure meters are in good condition and that the boxes are sound and insulated properly.
Extreme Cold and Power Outages:
If there are any unusually cold weather events, make sure heat is on in all buildings and that the heat cables are operational on pipes coming from the Lake pump house. IF these cold spells coincide with extended power outages, be aware that pipes near the lake could freeze. In such cases it is very important to make sure that the lake pumps DO NOT RUN until it has been determined that he lines are not frozen. This would normally mean turning off the pump timer so that pumps don't start up when power is restored. Once power has been back on for several hours, the heat cables should have melted any possibly frozen pipes. From the treatment building, test each pump briefly and carefully to make sure there is no blockage in each pump line BEFORE return the pump timer to normal operation.